How can performance prevent rape?

On-stage performance can help us reimagine what we take for granted. This blog looks at how performance can explore different ways to be a woman or a man, and negotiate relationships that are flexible, fun, and freeing.

I suggest that performance can be used as a tool in rape prevention. I look at how performative methods of rape prevention may build upon and develop other forms of social education that work to end rape, creating possibilites for different ways to engage in intimate relationships.

This blog is a personal, theoretical, and performative exploration of how performance can be used in rape prevention.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Spreading the Love: The Bed Tour has begun!

The bed has begun it's tour!

Wanna jump on??

Come and jump in my bed and be part of short films exploring how diverse rAdelaideans LOVE.

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About Me

I am studying for a PhD in Drama and Women's Studies at Flinders University in South Australia. My research looks at feminist performance art and community theatre, asking how performance can transform the social script of rape.

Performance as Rape Prevention

Chicks on Speed

My Art Rules Kyoto

Sam in SHE at the Feast Festival, 2009

Sam, played by Heidi, is reminiscent of the silenced woman, made into into a monster

Karen Finley smeared in chocolate

Finley is commemorating Tawana Brawley, a black woman who claimed to have been raped by a gang of 10 white men, and then smeared in shit by police officers. Noone was charged, except Finley lost her funding.

Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez Pena

Coco and Guillermo played on notions of the performance of race, posing in a cage with a sign stating they were native people new to civilisation